Install Swimming Pool Lights To Enhance Your Pool Visually

Night time swimming sessions are great when you have pool lights and also will be safer. Having lighting at the pool isn't only for the safety aspect but it makes the pool look nice too. Coloured lighting in the swimming pool will take it one stage further by giving you mood lighting. Some lights can even be multi coloured and changing every minute or so.

Exactly where to place the pool lighting around the pool.

One option is the swimming pool lighting recessed into the sides of the pool. You can have tracks systems that will go under the coving around the edge of a pool. Above the water lighting is the easiest to install and to look after. Parties by the pool are nicer with good lighting. There is lighting that can only really be installed when the pool is being commissioned first. There are some that are aftermarket, which can be fitted without draining the pool.

12 Volt Halogen

This type of light will be suited to the recreational swimming and is pretty affordable to install. You will have 100 watt halogen bulbs that run off a 12 volt transformer. Has to be 12 volt for safety considerations. By using lens covers you can have other colours of light from the white light bulbs.

Lighting Using Fiber Optics.

Side illuminating fibre optic cable that fits under the coping of your spa or your swimming pool. For different types of build of the swimming pool there various types of lights. Fibreglass Concrete, or a vinyl built pool. The light is brighter when there are more strands of the fibre. The cables are malleable to be able to fit on curves easily.

Lighting by LED.

The way forward with swimming pool lights is the LED technology for the most efficient energy use. The bulbs last for a very long time so the costs of replacing is much reduced. You will get 30,000 hours or more from an LED bulb. LED lighting gives you an option for automated colour changing of the light A light show with red, blue, white and magenta colours with a programming of the colour changes. Individual colours of LED can be mixed to alter the overall colour of each light unit.

Swimming Pool Lights That Float.

Available in a variety of shapes, patterns, styles and sizes you have the battery operated LED Lights. Flowers shapes, water lilies and roses. Shaped like starship toys with multi colour light displays. Floating swimming pool lighting you switch on and drop into the pool can be in the shape of jelly fish. Some of these type of lighting give a disco effect on the bottom of the pool.